The special, EIV News Presents: Consumed, which airs Monday, April 1, at 7:00 pm on the Emerson Channel, will examine the life of a 23-year-old anorexic living in the Boston area; the story behind Higher Ground, the city’s first-ever rooftop farm atop a skyscraper on Fort Point Channel; and the thinking behind Clover Food Truck, an innovative food truck business that integrates healthy and organic foods.

“Last summer … I went straight from India to Los Angeles. I was very struck by the differences in how people viewed food in the two places,” said Rebecca Wahle ’13, an executive producer.

“The over-arching theme of the show is to understand people’s different relationships with food,” said Alison Puzio ’14, an executive producer who is also a Studio TV Production major. “Do you eat to live? Or live to eat? The show challenges people to look at themselves.”

Joshua Sackheim '13, the host of Consumed, on the set. (Courtesy photo)

Consumed includes interviews with several experts, including Anuraj Shankler, a scientist at Harvard School of Public Health; Greg Maslowe, manager at Newton Community Farm; Emily Gordon, psychologist at McLean Hospital; and Miguel Alonso, instructor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

“People make 200 to 250 food decisions everyday,” Puzio said, “and we wanted to explore what goes into those decisions in Boston.”